Poll 2011 Belgian Grand Prix Driver of the Weekend
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I went for Nico. His defensive driving was immense. I would say Jenson or Schumacher but they both started with full range of dry tyres which gave them the advantage theybneeded to climb through the field. If you discount these two guys finishing ahead of him on those merits and take intonaccount the retirement of Hamilton, Rosberg effectively gained a position in the race and, once again, qualified better than would be expected. Great start too and held off some great drivers in better machinery very well until the inevitable.
Cookinflatsix
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you don't think Ray could be responsible for this do you?
RayInTorontoCanada
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Same. I don't get that.
Koba probably got the vote from a Hamilton hater who loved seeing him DNF...
...and Lewis from die hards who loved his qually effort and felt that Koba cost him a win.
I voted for Vettel in case anyone's wondering!
I explained my vote for Hamilton.
I don't get the Button votes for the reason I already posted.
We don't need to wonder.I voted for Vettel in case anyone's wondering!
Anyone can click on the total votes for each option to see who voted for that particular one.
I've already stated that Keke's vote for Kobayashi is probably ironic just a few posts ago.
As no-FIAt-please said, he explained his Hamilton vote a few pages back.
Why does no-one read previous posts?
He was 12th before the safety car which put him in third behind his teammate and a slower Mercedes. That boy sure does have some luck.
Just looking at the lap chart, I struggle to see at what point Vettel was 12th. And I believe he was behind Webber and Alonso after the Safety Car.
Vettel was P1 when the SC was deployed, but he was able to pit for new tyres, which voided any possible advantage Alonso would have had due to pitting 4 laps earlier.
The biggest gainer without a doubt was Button.
http://www.fia.com/public/f1-2011/documents/bel-f1-2011-chart.pdf
The biggest gainer without a doubt was Button.
http://www.fia.com/public/f1-2011/documents/bel-f1-2011-chart.pdf
So, in essence, the question is could Vettel have caught and passed Alonso later on when he had no pace? I choose to believe he would have.
I would not doubt that had there been another 10 laps, Michael Schumacher would have caught and passed Alonso, such was the ugly ugly state of affairs.
Vettel was the first of all drivers to pit without damage.
Jos the Boss
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Partly the fact alonso's tyres would of went off, Schumi would of had an easy ride or alonso would of had to pit
I might be wrong on this but didn't Schumi and Rosberg do the same amount of pitstops? If they did then the fact that Schumi had more fresh tyres than Rosberg didn't matter really. The only difference was that Schumi started on a fresh set and Nico didn't - which could be said for anyone below 10th - and Schumi being stuck in traffic would have put pay to that advantage anyways. I think what put Schumacher in front of Nico was a) getting the hard tyre out the way quicker and b) being faster than him.
Interesting reading. Slowly slowly catchy monkey it appears.
As I think I said elsewhere Nico had a great race too - just don't think you can put Schumi getting past him down to the fresh rubber
As I think I said elsewhere Nico had a great race too - just don't think you can put Schumi getting past him down to the fresh rubber
That says tyres to me.
RayInTorontoCanada
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If Spa had been a 54 lap race, Alonso would have used his 3rd Set of Softs somewhere along the way. Alonso actually screwed up by not being on a 3 stopper. I thought he was missing a chance of winning as the laps began ticking off and he was leaving it too late to use up his 3rd set of Softs.
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